Double casings on electric lines?
Gas not electric?
Get the homeless a job, and pay them to cut down the brush where needed.
Get the homeless a job, and pay them to cut down the brush where needed.
Ya have to keep the lines and the land clear of things that burn.
It’s incredibly complex, almost impossible to understand.
Cancel bullet train and taking care of illegals and bury the dam things
can’t power lines go underground? i thought they could.
All facetiousness aside, one real solution for this is actually pretty simple. All they have to do is allow the utilities to cut brush and trees away from power lines, something currently outlawed in CA. That’s it - all they have to do is cut the same reasonable sized safety zones around power lines they have everywhere else in the US.
Am contemplating a theory:
“Green New Deal” types are orchestrating the demise of PG&E to persuade people to “go green” individually.
Hence the judge holding PG&E liable for last year’s damages, alongside legislators refusing to allow/compel PG&E to mitigate the power line risks.
To wit: exacerbate bad fire conditions, hold PG&E accountable unto bankruptcy, mass blackouts motivated by politics (not breakage) ensue, people panic and turn to home solar/wind, fossil-fuel utilities collapse.
More conspiratorial than I like, yet plausible (given that GND types actually believe their rhetoric).
Underground wires are pretty safe, as long as you’re not a dog burying a bone.
Mostly forestry management so fires don’t rage out of control. We can’t stop fires from starting, but if the environmentalists didn’t have their way and we could clear forest floors and thin them out, then fires would not burn out of control and we could stop them more readily.
These fires did not burn out of control in the 1950s and 1960s when we exercised strict forest management. This is a man-made problem caused by environmentalist wackos.
Bury the electric lines in areas like they have been found to be a problem with fallen lines causing a fire, which is usually in an unpopulated section. In a populated section the overhead lines, if they fall, are usually going to land on pavement or in someone’s yard.
Real solutions, e.g. cut down the non native absurdly inflammable eucalyptus trees and don't whine about it. The chaparral is flammable enough already. I'll bet that firebreak was insufficient for this fire. But wherever there's chaparral there's going to be brushfire, that will burn without a man made ignition source, so if you have property in those hills you'd better be prepared.
On the face of it, you’d have to cut growth beyond 30 feet.
Bury them into the ground.
Quite simple